The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09

minister's lodgings to find him enjoy
mo the hest of health, and wondering,
mill s I it was explained to him, what II
was all about" -,
land what did they do with you ?"
asked one of the company.
"Nothing. l had always rendered
fei,bf1I services before this occurrence
or I would have lost my place, Tor
Wprdock made several attempts to have
"sneaking of BULLS" said another
old teIegrapher, 81 remember one in
nart;cnIar in the case of an elderly
maiden lady, who telegraphed her
fou1iiv nhysjcian from Saratoga that
tba waters were not giving her the re-
lief she expected, and to send her pre-
scrintion by wire, She received this by
telegraph:
"7Take doE of pills.
"She took them and became so serl-
ously i'll that her physician was sum-
moned in great haste. He came to the
telegraph office In towering rage next
day and declared that the operator who
received the message was nearly re-
sponsible for the lady's death. Inc
doctor had said: Take dose of pills.
- EVeIY VIII lOAA va - "
GENERATORS quarrel over the wire. The
men who are the most quiet and gen
tlemanly in their personal relations,
are sometimes the most disaagreeaole
to work with. 1t is so easy, you know,
to call aSman blank blank fool when
several hundred miles of wire separate
you, and, besides, the fear of the conse-
quences is very light. l shall never for,
get an amusing fight l once heard
between an operator at Xenla, w., ano
another at Cincinnati. After each had
exhausted his vocabulary of billings
gate, the operator at Cincinnati sud-
denly subsidized and refused to continue
to contest, whereupon Xenia snapped
out:
Whats the difference between You
and jackass" Quick as flash came
the reply: Just sixty miles. Ask me
harder one"
"Is it true" asked one of the by
ISLANDERS, THAT an operators moods
may be determined by his manner of
using the key2"
8 If you have been in the habit OF
working reguraly:: with man
you can tell before you ex-
he is feeling fresh and buoyant, tired
or lazy or out of sorts by his manner of
transmission. There is as much in
dividuality about a mans sending as
there is about his penmanship, and
he can be as readily distinguished
by it. A case in point is related by ALT.
Saville, who worked one of the gov
eminent wires between Nashville and
Louisville during the war. One day,
while the wire was idle, some one at an
station called up the Nash
vile office and began asking Savile a
of questions about the move
ments of the troops and other matters
c )nnected with the army. Before two
Saville recognized his man.
81 say, George Ellsworth, what the
devil are you doing there?' flashed
Savlle, cutting into the middle of a
sentence There was a moments
pause, and then came the answer,
slowly and hesitatingly:
II cut in on the wire two days ago,
and have secured a good deal of in
but might have got more
# 1 had only kept my mouth (key)
shut. Good-by, ALT. 1 am going.
There was a sudden click of the wire,
and then the circuit closed.
Ellsworth was the celebrated Con-
'ederate operator who accompanied
John Morgan in his raids through Ken
lucky and Ohio. Saville and he had
worked together in New Orleans before
he war, and each was familiar with
he others style of sending"